Notes from parents...

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Brutsch Avolette (1956)

French version of the German Brütsch.

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Randy_B takes a walk...

We went to Sanborn County Park near Saratoga, CA today; here are a few photos including an unusual sign and a feisty gopher that confronted me on the trail after it determined that standing completely still wasn't fooling me.  (It was about the size of a large hamster or a small rat.  Note the digging claws.  Part of its display was to lunge toward me with mouth open and waving its claws.)

-Randy

How brave of Randy to put himself in harm's way for Frog Blog. 

It's amazing what readers are willing to endure to bring beauty and variety to the lame denizens of Froglandia. We applaud you

and are relieved that Randy didn't need to get a series of rabies shots. Speaking of rabies, NPR ran a segment about a Milwaukee girl who became the first person in (known) history to beat the rabies virus. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/news/girl-is-first-to-survive-rabies-without-vaccine.html

https://noughtyscience.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/the-milwaukee-protocol-and-beyond-is-rabies-really-a-death-sentence/

                                                                                                       

https://wamu.org/story/12/08/01/bites_from_rabid_vampire_bats_may_not_be_a_death_sentence/

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/24/nyregion/judge-orders-us-to-pay-5.98-million-to-rabies-survivor.html

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Bill's garden...

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Froglandia has some of the best gardens around. This is stunning, Bill.

sign posts

 submitted by coltish1.

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Iva

Iva (minor planet designation: 497 Iva) is a main-belt asteroid orbiting the Sun, not to be confused with 1627 Ivar.

--You read it right... NOT to be confused with 1627 Ivar!!

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Regeneron Science Talent Search

Dasia Taylor, 17, was named a finalist in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search for her use of beet extract on sutures to detect wound infection. (Society for Science/(Courtesy of Society for Science)

A high-schooler wanted infection-detecting sutures to be more accessible. She used beets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/01/high-schooler-wanted-infection-detecting-sutures-be-more-accessible-she-used-beets/

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LittleLameLetter response from a Frog Applause / Frog Blog reader (P.R.)

I hear you. I'm spared ennui due to handling family finances, dealing with my email, and trying to write in odd moments -- some odder than others. Wish I could take a break, but that will come week after next when I have my last wisdom tooth extracted. Oh, joy.

But I did run across a JPL report about tracing the wake of the Large Magellenic Cloud that, it turns out, is in its first and penultimate orbit of our galaxy. Turns out that as it goes, it's trailing a considerable amount of dark matter, which we cannot see or detect save as gravitational effects on large objects such as galaxies. So it's a study opportunity of Brobdingnagian scale, involving a wake made of stars much larger than the Milky Way. An interesting object of contemplation, even without the animation. I bring it to your attention as a subject deserving of your scrutiny.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/astronomers-release-new-all-sky-map-of-milky-way-s-outer-reaches

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Wall Street Journal

 

Grandpa Style: Why 20-Somethings Are Dressing Like Senior Citizens

https://www.wsj.com/articles/grandpa-style-why-20-somethings-are-dressing-like-senior-citizens-11618844440?mod=e2twl

(You have to be a subscriber to read the full story, but what is available is still interesting.)

https://www.instagram.com/WANTSHOWASYOUNG/

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